Synopsis
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
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Cast
- John TravoltaMichael
- Andie MacDowellDorothy Winters
- William HurtFrank Quinlan
- Bob HoskinsVartan Malt
- Robert PastorelliHuey Driscoll
- Jean StapletonPansy Milbank
- Teri GarrJudge Esther Newberg
- Wallace LanghamBruce Craddock
- Joey Lauren AdamsAnita
- Carla GuginoBride
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Michael doesn't set up big drama or punch up big moments. It ambles. - 70
Chicago Reader
Before this turns to total mush, it's a quirky, fitfully effective fantasy periodically enlivened by the cast. - 63
ReelViews
It's a little too low-key to be an effective romance and a little too soft to be anything more ambitious. Ultimately, it's neither offensive nor horrible; it's just another unspectacular, uninspired entry on Nora Ephron's erratic resume. - 60
The New York Times
The movie is so busy applying cute touches to everything and everybody that it forgets to devote enough attention to the souls Michael has come down to save. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The best movie she ever directed was "This Is My Life," a biting comedy she also wrote that was soundly defeated by both critics and audiences. I think she's lost her nerve and her edge ever since. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
But wouldn't it be heavenly if a like proportion of Tinseltown producers believed in an existing need for a good script. Because this one ain't good; in fact, it's hellishly mediocre, the kind that aims for holiday charm and settles for workaday torpor. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Nora Ephron's comedy tries to be sweet, hip, innocent, and sophisticated all at the same time, and it doesn't take long for these contradictory goals to cancel one another out. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Nora Ephron directed it and had a hand in the screenplay, but without Travolta this film would have no reason for being.
